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About
| Wake Up Call | |
| 7:30 AM - 8 AM Fridays | |
| Tana Hartman | |
| Tana earns her daily bread in the office of External Relations for the UNC Department of Psychiatry. Her passions, however, are sailing with partner Peter Thorn and advocating for economic and political justice. She hosts the WILPF Wake Up Call live each Friday morning at 7:30am and has for the past few years hosted a similarly formatted issues talk show that airs three times a week on The Peoples Channel, cable channel 8. Tana is secretary of the Board of Directors for The Peoples Channel (TPC), serving Chapel Hill, Orange County, and parts of Chatham and Durham counties. She is treasurer for the media watchdog group, Balance and Accuracy in Journalism – Committee for Media in the Public Interest, which sponsors monthly events designed to provide broader perspectives on important issues that are often ignored or underreported by mainstream media. She has served as president of the advocacy group, North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections, and was a member of the State Employees Association of NC, District 25. She earned her B.A. summa cum laude from Wellesley College and an M.A. from Duke University. Before abandoning grad school for a job at UNC, she completed the coursework for a Ph.D. in History, also at Duke. Show Description: Wake Up Call, sponsored by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom – Triangle Branch, features weekly 30-minute interviews with some of the most interesting, engaging, and thought-provoking people in and around our community. WILPF, an international NGO with sections in 35 countries, is the oldest women's peace and justice organization in the world. The weekly Wake Up Call addresses a wide range of social and economic justice issues, from the achievement gap in our schools, to the search for an Orange County waste transfer station, to local teens reporting on their trip to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, to campaign finance reform and healthcare in North Carolina, to the International Worker Justice Movement and its links to local workers. Although these and other issues are of interest and often imminent concern to members of the local community, they are usually under- or even unreported by the mainstream media. Some issues have a local focus. Others link our community to larger world issues. All of them impact the lives of Carrboro and Chapel Hill community members in one way or another. |
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